Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
arcuate .
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- adjective Alternative form of
arcuate .
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This method of construction is called arcuated, in contradistinction to the trabeated style used in Greek architecture, where the voids between column and column, or between column and wall, were spanned by lintels.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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A seething cloud of arcuated eyes and rapacious beaks, they darken the sky.
Harlequin 2010
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The free edge is arcuated; and the rectum passes over it, but is in no way connected with it.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The left-hand end of the ligament is inserted into the upper wall of the dilated end of the vena cava; but between this point and the heart it has a free arcuated edge, as on the right side.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Body about the size of a common goose; bill short, vaulted, obtuse, two-thirds of which is covered by an expanded cere of a pale greenish-yellow colour, the tip of the bill being black, arcuated, and truncated.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The singular "pyriform appendage" of the heart lies in the left process of the ligament, its anterior edge nearly following the arcuated contour of that process.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Tetrao lagopus, L. Feathers of the feet snow-white; tail of eighteen feathers, the lateral black; bill moderate, compressed at the point; nails black, subulate, arcuated.
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Its progress was the realisation of three great aims, towards which the Romanesque architects were ever striving -- the perfecting of the arcuated and vaulted construction, the increase of the altitude of their proportion, and the general adding of refinement and delicacy to their details. [
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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